But a week later we read in the newspaper of the
sad case of Bishop Morehouse, who had been committed to the Napa Asylum and for whom there were still hopes held out.
Flights of fancy gave place, in her mind, to a steady fireside glow, and I had already begun to perceive how, with the development of the conviction that--as time went on without a public accident-- our young things could, after all, look out for themselves, she addressed her greatest solicitude to the
sad case presented by their instructress.
Whereupon the newspapers informed the public that the
sad case of the two lepers at the pest-house had become tragic, because the white one had gone insane.
I had seen Scotty weep about his own worthlessness and the
sad case of his Edinburgh mother who was a lady.
Don't it seem to you they'd be in a
sad case, if, some pleasant summer morning like this, the angel should spread his wings, and fly to the place he came from?
And they were accommodating Hetty, poor thing--a pretty, respectable-looking young woman, apparently in a
sad case. They declined to take anything for her food and bed: she was quite welcome.
"The landlord of the house which we had taken when we were married heard of my
sad case. He gave me one of his empty houses to look after, and a little weekly allowance for doing it.
Here Jonathan interrupted him hotly, "Do you mean to say, Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, in her
sad case and tainted as she is with that devil's illness, right into the jaws of his deathtrap?
He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child,--like that one which was now wearing his lost boy's little well-known cap; and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel,--as he was a man, and a downright noble-hearted one, too,--he was, as everybody must see, in a
sad case for his patriotism.
"There is a
sad case of a teacher who was forcefully transferred from the village to a school in Voi town.
Mr Justice Picken said: "It's a very
sad case for everybody."
Given the importance of this
sad case, we'd like to make these details clear to your readers.